Let's see how to check internet speed, in order to know what real speed reaches our home through the service contracted with our operator. When we contract an internet service in Our home We are informed of various data such as connection speed, both up and down, in addition to other features of our new Connection to the network of networks. But on many occasions we ask ourselves if we get the promised connection speed by the company; Therefore, below we show you how to measure the speed of your Internet connection, both on your desktop or laptop computer and on your mobile device.
How to know the internet speed
Index of contents
- Previous considerations
- How to do an internet speed test on your PC
- How to do an internet speed test on your mobile
Previous considerations
Before starting to check the speed of your internet connection, you must take different aspects into account. The first thing is that you must close any program P2P or download of data on your computer, as well as stop any file download or upload activity to avoid bandwidth consumption and ensure that the test data is as real as possible. So much so, that we recommend Restart your computer and perform the test so that no program interferes.
How to do an internet speed test on your PC
Browsing the internet we can find numerous specialized pages in performing speed measurements of your internet connection, such as:
Among others, in addition to the official websites of internet operators who also offer the same personalized service for their clients, such as:
For our guide we will base ourselves on the page SpeedTest, one of the most popular pages; Furthermore, all of them work in a similar way, so if we learn to perform the test with that page, we will be able to do it with the others without a problem. Of course, since they are free web pages, they all show more or less advertising, so finding each icon can be more or less cumbersome depending on the advertising displayed in the form of banners on each page.
In all of them the main icon of Start, which will serve to begin the speed test of your internet connection. As a general rule, the test will begin by first measuring the PING, the response value of your connection. Later it will start the download and upload processes to measure both times. At the end, the results obtained by the test will be shown and you will be able to buy them with the official data provided by your operator and see if they really comply with what was promised.
How to do an internet speed test on your mobile
To perform the speed test of your internet connection From the phone You can use specific applications both for iOS as for Android through the App Store and Google Play, respectively, all of them free. Below we offer you the most popular ones for both operating systems:
iOS
Android
Although if you prefer you can also use the same method as on PC, that is, accessing any of the previous web pages through the internet browser of your mobile device to perform the same internet speed test.
